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\"Cover\"Young people are quite critical of influencers when it comes to their subjective presentation of newsworthy information. They expect journalists to be neutral above all. This is what the #UseTheNews study<\/a> found out during group discussions with teenagers and young adults.<\/p>\n

Leonie Wunderlich<\/a>, co-author of the study, has described the results in detail in the dpa Innovation Blog<\/a> (in German).\n<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/h2>\n

In social media, young people follow not only their friends and acquaintances, but also prominent people from the music and film business as well as well-known personalities from politics and the media. By sharing content online or producing and distributing news-like content themselves, these actors also serve as a source of information for many young people. The relevance of so-called social media influencers (SMI) for information use and opinion formation is related in particular to their function as identification figures and the satisfaction of group-related needs of young people.<\/p>\n

This is shown in a recently published paper presenting findings from group discussions with adolescents and young adults conducted as part of the #UseTheNews project. Moreover, many young people express a critical opinion of influencers in social networks, especially when it comes to their subjective portrayals. Young people primarily expect journalists to be neutral.<\/p>\n

Read more on the dpa blog<\/a>
\nWunderlich, L. (2022): \u201eDie halte ich dann auch f\u00fcr eine seri\u00f6se Quelle\u201c: Was junge Menschen von Influencern erwarten. Und von Journalisten. [\u201cI Consider Them to Be a Serious Source\u201d: What Young People Expect from Influencers. And from Journalists.] https:\/\/innovation.dpa.com\/2022\/02\/02\/was-junge-menschen-von-influencern-und-journalisten-erwarten\/<\/a> 03 February 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2433,"template":"","tags":[398],"class_list":["post-10178","hbi-publications","type-hbi-publications","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-miscellaneous"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n- Leibniz HBI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-publications\/10178\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Young people are quite critical of influencers when it comes to their subjective presentation of newsworthy information. They expect journalists to be neutral above all. 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